Zone 2 Set Up/Connection Have 2 outdoor speakers connected to Zone 2 inputs on receiver. Want to play music from DirecTV satellite receiver. Cannot find any info on how to connect audio cables from DirecTV source to receiver. Can anyone help? Zone 2 Set Up/Connection Have 2 outdoor speakers connected to Zone 2 inputs on receiver. Want to play music from DirecTV satellite receiver. Cannot find any info on how to connect audio cables from... » Read More Zone 2 Set Up/Connection Have 2 outdoor speakers connected to Zone 2 inputs on receiver. Want to play music from DirecTV satellite receiver. Cannot find any info on how to connect audio cables from DirecTV source to receiver. Can anyone help? « Show Less
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Hello and thanx for your reply. Yes, Zone 2 is active. I just need to know what kind of connections for audio from DirecTV receiver to Onkyo receiver. What I have tried hasn't worked. I know it is analog sound only out of Zone 2. Going to contact Onkyo and see if I have any luck.
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ANY info or input on properly setting up ZONE 2 on any Onkyo receiver would be helpful. I cannot get sound from my outdoor speakers. Volume control on receiver when in Zone 2 reads 00 and will not adjust. HELP!
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Have you changed the settings so that Zone 2 is active? Because I believe you can choose 7.1, or 5.1 bi-amped, or 5.1 and 2.0 (Zone 2)
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there are no additional zone inputs, you can select the 6 and 7th channel as a 2nd zone amp 2 channel but this is not a multi room receiver, you don't "input" you output additional zones, you need a receiver or multi zone amplifier that will power a pair of speakers in the 3 rooms in your home other marantz models can do this. and there are many multi zone systems out there as well
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Hello David; since this model doesn't provide POWERED ZONE 2- ZONE 2 volume is only controlled by the connected external amp. Please control the ZONE 2 volume by the external amp- as the ZONE 2 LINE OUT terminal outputs a FIXED output that is controllable via the external amp connected for ZONE 2.
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The zone 2 I am not setup yet, and 7.1 channel I don't know why I have out put only 5.1 or 5.2. I check the seting but still don't know how to get the out put for 7.1. I have 7 speaker and 2 subwoofer still try to setting up. I will let you know when I got it.Best RegardMinh
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Dear TriplsJs15, Thanks for your inquiry. The Zone 2 in the AVR-S900W can play a separate source from the main source. There are no preouts on this receiver to use a separate amplifier for zone 2. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance! Regards, Eric Cohen World Wide Stereo
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Hi-I had a pro installer put our system in who was familiar with this pioneer line-He had alot of trouble with this issue. Basically you have to have separate inputs for ZONE 2-then you have to switch to zone 2 on the controller. For some reason when I want to switch to zone 2 I have to hit the power button. Once you are on zone 2 you then choose your input source. This system was not very user friendly,,,,but it sounds good.
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Zone 2 (audio 2-channel stereo) is useless. It can only pass through analog input sources (e.g. NOT HDMI, because why would you want audio with that HDMI picture on zone 2?) Also it has 2 HDMI outputs, but if you select to pass audio out through HDMI (because Zone 2 audio isn't support on HDMI input) then your zone 1 becomes a 2-channel stereo (not 5.1). There are so many limitations and caveats on use of zone 2, you might as well forget it exists.
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You can pick any input for your Zone 2 speakers while playing different content on the main zone. The only exemption I have found is with the Apple TV. For some reason the only way I can make the Apple TV to play on Zone 2 is by selecting the Party Mode option which play the Selected input at both Zones.
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You can use the output of zone 2 as the analog input of the main zone. Put anything you want on zone 2 (except airplay apparently) and change the main zone to the analog inputs. This is a trick we use with automation systems.
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I believe zone 2 will take any audio source from the receiver... However, HDMI Out 2 will only mirror what is on HDMI Out 1. It will not let you output two separate video streams. Hope that helps!
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OK..months later, I finally got my two outside speakers working. I was given the right advice but did not understand a few things... specifically that I did not have to fool around with Speaker Pattern. The menu progression using the remote is as follows: Amp Menu>Speaker>SB Assign>Spk B>Return/Exit. Then on the front left of the Tuner you press the Speakerbutton until SP B lights up........When finished I think you have to got back to the AMP Menu and do Speaker>SB Assign>Off>Return/Exit
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Frank, there is no "A" or "B" speakers, just "Front". If you need to wire a second zone, you have to connect the speakers to the upper front or surround back input, I don't remember well right now. Regards and good luck.
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I have 3 components connected to my receiver - An Amazon TV, a Blu-Ray disk player and the Directv receiver - all using HDMI cables. You do need to have the receiver on, but how else would you get that beautiful sound! If your DirecTV receiver doesn't have an HDMI output, you can connect the DirecTV box to the composite video inputs on the front of the receiver and select the V-Aux input on the remote control. You may be able to connect it to one of the composite video inputs on the back, but I didn't try that. I hope that helps.TopCatOnyx
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Thanks Chris. Yes I checked the DVD player tp make sure it has DTS code. I didnt use the optical cable for the digital sound connection but I used the digital coax which I believe should work just fine on DTS. I called customer service but they answered via email and didnt really know how to solve the issue. I am disappointed at Pioneer receiver. Appreciate ur sharing with me. Thanks. By the way, does digital sound has some echo in it?
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NOTE: ZONE 2 is an ANALOG only source- With all of our products that have a Zone 2 or more features they use only analog connections (RED &WHITE) so you need to hook up an analog connection from the source into the back of the receiver into the input that you are using. The digital connection will remain in the main room and the analog will be redirected to Zone2 or the other Zone outputs. So basically- any input connected to the receiver already using HDMI will also need a RCA Composite audio (red and white) cables into the SAME input (i.e HDMI&gt; CBL/ SAT and RCA AUDIO cables&gt; CBL/SAT). Now when you press the specific input for ZONE 2- the analog audio source will broadcast the audio and the digital audio will be broadcasted into the main room.
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Dear Papillon, Thanks for your inquiry. Zone 2 audio on the AVR-S900W requires either an analog signal or a signal from a Bluetooth device. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance. Regards, Eric Cohen World Wide Stereo
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I'm able to get zone 2 audio by setting inet radio as the source. From there I can access inet radio, pandora etc. without running separate analog audio cables